Why are we so confident in our ignorance? opinions, beliefs. ideas all paper thin, yet we protect them........

Question

with our lives. why?fear?insecurtity?

Answer 1

variety of reasons, sometimes we just dont bother wanting to question, learn, analyze, so we grab onto something, and hold to it, other times we might have fear or insecurity , so its important to hold tight to what gives us comfort,,, and other times, its not ignorance, but we have slowly come to our opinions and beliefs, we have questioned and analyzed, and we feel strongly that this is true for us, no matter how ignorant others view us

Answer 2

Fear and insecurity are the necessary emotions of ignorance. We don't know what is important and haven't a clue where to look. The looking process has been sidetracked by two incorrect perspectives, materialism and spiritualism. Neither of them works. That is why there are two. They are the only perspectives we know and naturally they incite a high level of reactionary emotions because they produce the only security we know.

When confronted with genuine truth the ignorant retreat. They are afraid of exploration that would upset the routine supporting their lives. In this case the routine and the assumptions which support it are the only world they know. For them any offering of genuine truth is impossible to understand because it comes from a different perspective. They cannot/will not hear what is being said. Their whole persona is at stake.

For sometime (about 40 years) it has been my position an evolutionary step is eminent in the intellectual realm. There is a gigantic need to get world changing ideas on paper in a manner consistent with everyone's needs. Our current intellectual realm has no future consistent with our needs.

Answer 3

A truly confident person is willing to place his ideas and beliefs under scrutiny and is willing to let them go if necessary. The search for truth requires confidence.

I think what you are describing is confidence's evil twin brother - arrogance. They may look alike but they act very differently.

Confidence allows one to see another point of view and give in if necessary without a feeling of loss and without losing one's own uniqueness - its arrogance that doesn't allow that.

Answer 4

That confidence is a manner of testing assumptions... You will notice that bravado diminishing as one gains more information. There comes the time when the "show" turns into calmness about the given concept.

Answer 5

Because we try to impose order on an order-less universe to provide the comfort of meaningfulness. Contrary evidence to our systemic construction only confirms our mythologizing and exposes our fear of chaos.

Answer 6

Belief is cozy. Warm ignorance is preferable to cold reality.

Answer 7

we protect our reality, our beliefs are real to us .
confidence in our ignorance = knowing we don't know
everything.